• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    Just waiting for the pain to be enough to switch to Linux on a phone.

    Main drawbacks right now:

    • I have one health-related (open source) app that I NEED to work flawlessly
    • Navigating the various UIs seems incredibly awkward and inconsistent
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      2 days ago

      Have you checked SailfishOS? Their Android-bridge is pretty decent, it might work well. If you tell me the app name, I can check whether it works or not.

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        14 hours ago

        Thanks, that is a very kind offer!

        The secific app is xdrip+. But it’s probably not possible to test it out, because starting/working is not the issue, the issue is making sure that it has a 100%% stable background connection with my blood glucose sensor, recovers from failures, restarts in the background on closure,… Eventually, I’ll get my hands on a linux handheld and try for myself :)

        That being said - how’s your experience with Sailfish been so far?

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        14 hours ago

        Ah, true. I honestly think we need to get to a point where smartphones intended for use with linux are profitable / widespread.

        But that’s a catch 22 with UX and HW both being required for companies to invest in the other.